The 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans—much like its predecessor and the Greek myths it draws its inspiration from—falls under the “because why not” school of plotting. A cursed man’s drops of blood turn into giant scorpions, because why not? Pegasus the legendary mount shows up out of nowhere exactly when needed, because why not? Kraken, the destroyer of Titans and the most feared creature in the cosmos, can be defeated by a woman cursed by the gods, because why not? And so on.
Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong …

At first blush, Repo Men appears to be from the Equilibrium school of sci-fi allegory. For those of you not familiar with that film (and why would you be?), Equilibrium was essentially a bare-bones reworking of 1984 with justice achieved via gunplay. There’s a little more than that working under the hood in Repo Men, even if the end experience is curiously empty. It’s not unlike eating a flavored rice cake: tasty enough at the time, but moments later you can scarcely believe you ate anything at all.
Briefly: In the …